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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...PUBLICATION The French Revolution (INDEX) Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...family. BLOOD, baths of. BONCHAMPS, in La Vendee War. BONNEMERE, Aubin, at Siege of Bastille. BOUILLE, at Metz, account of, character of, troops mutin... ..., duellist. BREST, sailors revolt, state of, in 1791, Federes in Paris, in 1793. BRETEUIL, Home-Secretary. BRETON Club, germ of Jacobins. BRETONS, dep... ... National Convention, assists in New Calendar, imprisoned. ELIE, Capt., at Siege of Bastille, after victory. ELIZABETH, Princess, flight to Varennes, ... ... to relieve, in 1792, and remedy, remedy by maximum, &c. FAUCHET, Abbe, at siege of Bastille, his Te-Deums, his harangue on Franklin, his Cercle Socia... ... Girondin, on trial of Louis, plots at his house, trial of, kills himself. VALENCIENNES, besieged, surrendered. VARENNE, Maton de la, his experiences ... ... tried and guillotined. WIMPFEN, Girondin General. YORK, Duke of, besieges Valenciennes and Dunkirk. YOUNG, Arthur, at French Revolution. To return t...

...INDEX ABBAYE, massacres, Jourgniac, Sicard, and Maton?s account of. ACCEPTATION, grande, by Louis XVI. AGOUST, Captain d?, seizes two Parlementeers. AIGUILLON, d?, at Quiberon, account of, in favour, at death of Louis XV. AINTRIGUES, Count d?. ALTAR of Fatherland in Champ-de-Mars, scene a...

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The French Revolution a History Volume Three

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ch Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...the South- East, and Spain is in the South, and Clairfait with Austria and sieged Thionville is in the North;—and all France leaps distracted, like th... ... rid of it: that seems now their humour. Nor does Austria prosper, nor the siege of Thionville. The Thionvillers, carrying their in- solence to the ep... ...spectral Redcloak, and find treasures!—On the eighth day of this desperate siege, the sixth day of Octo- ber, Austria finding it fruitless, draws off,... ... Jacobin Missionaries are riding and running: of the ‘three Towns,’ Lille, Valenciennes or even Conde, which Dumouriez wanted to snatch for himself, n... ... Representatives, War-Minister at their head, are posting hitherward, from Valenciennes: are close at hand,— with what intents one may guess! While th... ...gny; but what boots it? The Artillery has all revolted, is jingling off to Valenciennes: all have revolted, are revolting; except only foreign Berchig...

........................................................................................................................... 77 Chapter 3.2.V. Stretching of Formulas. ............................................................................................................................ 80 Chapter 3.2.VI. At the Bar. ...........................................................

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The French Revolution a History Volume Two

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ench Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...sand contradictions;—to no purpose. For, in far lands, with scarlet Nassau-Siegens, with sinful Imperial Catherines, is not the heart-broken, even as ... ...ides-de-camp fly forth, vague, in quest and pursuit; young Romoeuf towards Valenciennes, though with small hope. Thus Paris; sublimely calmed, in its ... ... the leathern Diligences. Young Romoeuf, as we said, was off early towards Valenciennes: distracted Villagers seize him, as a traitor with a finger of... ...e, after cen- turies, this is what we have: Jourdan Coupe-tete, leading to siege and warfare an Army, from three to fifteen thou- sand strong, called ... ...eing killed in mu- tiny, closes his dye-shop; and does there visibly, with siege- artillery, above all with bluster and tumult, with the ‘brave Brigan... ...ut and clap hands. (Moore, Journal during a Resi- dence in France (Dublin, 1793), i. 26.) City of all the Dev- ils! In remote streets, men are drinkin...

...TITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..........................................................

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...le the War yet lasts, will Gibraltar surrender. Not though Crillon, Nassau-Siegen, with the ablest projectors ex- tant, are there; and Prince Conde an... ... Eye above can read it,—as it shall unfold itself, in fire and thunder, of siege, and field-artillery; in the rustling of battle-banners, the tramp of... ... with its back towards us: the Bastille is still to take! To describe this Siege of the Bastille (thought to be one of the most important in history) ... ...des- de-camp fly forth, vague, in quest and pursuit; young Romoeuf towards Valenciennes, though with small hope. Thus Paris; sublimely calmed, in its ... ... the leathern Diligences. Young Romoeuf, as we said, was off early towards Valenciennes: distracted Villagers seize him, as a traitor with a finger of... ... Jacobin Missionaries are riding and running: of the ‘three Towns,’ Lille, Valenciennes or even Conde, which Dumouriez wanted to snatch for himself, n...

...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................

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